Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Removal1971, Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo, California4530 Age: 27
Memoat her home, Yellow Jacket Ranch
BurialYellow Jacket Ranch, Arroyo Grande, California4537
Memoashes scattered
FlagsMayflower Descendant
FatherLeRoy Farnham KRUSI (1894-1983)
MotherHarriet HUME (1907-1997)
Individual Notes
• Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991 and was successfully treated at that time. After fracturing her pelvis while on the Pony Express ride in 2000, she was diagnosed with metastisis to the bones.4537
• Susan Krusi Dyke passed away peacefully at home with her family by her side on Tuesday, October 5, 2004. We are grateful for the thirteen additional years spent together after her original cancer diagnosis.
Susie was born June 16, 1943 in Oakland, California to the late Harriet Hume Krusi and engineer, LeRoy Farnham Krusi, one of the founders of NATRC. Sue attended UC Davis and graduated from UC Berkeley where we met. She moved to Arroyo Grande in 1971 following her marriage to Louis Henry "Skip" Dyke III. Susie was a lifelong horsewoman, a cattle rancher with me, and an accomplished sailor.
She was a founding member, lifetime member and past president of the California Dressage Society and a lifetime member of the American Endurance Ride Conference, as well as a member of the North American Trail Ride Conference, Longriders and Back Country Horsemen and Morro Bay Yacht Club.
She completed numerous distance rides with more than 8,000 miles recorded, including Tevis twice, Capitol-to-Capitol, and the Pony Express in each direction and many other XP rides.
Skip and Sue began sailing in the 1980's with our daughters. Sue first competed in a Lido with Skip, but soon took up sailing a Laser in competition against me and our daughters.
She will be remembered for her competitive spirit and for living her entire life to its fullest, participating in horse events throughout the decline of her health. She is survived by her husband Skip, her two daughters and their husbands, Thomas and Bette Jenkins of Arroyo Grande and Mary and Lawrence D'Rozario of North Carolina. Sue has three brothers, George and wife Barbara Krusi, Carlisle and wife Lynne Krusi, and the late LeRoy "Tim" Krusi. Sue was looking forward to a grandchild to be born in the spring.
The family requests no flowers; instead, memorials may be sent to the American Cancer Society or Hospice Partners of the Central Coast. It is my hope that Susie will be remembered for her philosophy of riding our horse well and that only YOU, the rider, are responsible for the health and well-being of your horse. My heartfelt thanks for the support and friendship of all of our ride friends..... Skip Dyke.4530
• My mother was a person who couldn't sit still... I think after she did what she could with the genealogy she moved on. My own emails got short answers or no answers at all. She rode her horses thousands of miles, raced Laser sailboats against teenagers, took a skiing trip after she had broken her pelvis, etc. The years she did genealogy were probably El Nino years when she couldn't get outside!4532
• Susan Krusi Dyke passed away peacefully at home with her family by her side on Tuesday, October 5, 2004. We are grateful for the thirteen additional years spent together after her original cancer diagnosis.
Susie was born June 16, 1943 in Oakland, California to the late Harriet Hume Krusi and engineer, LeRoy Farnham Krusi, one of the founders of NATRC. Sue attended UC Davis and graduated from UC Berkeley where we met. She moved to Arroyo Grande in 1971 following her marriage to Louis Henry "Skip" Dyke III. Susie was a lifelong horsewoman, a cattle rancher with me, and an accomplished sailor.
She was a founding member, lifetime member and past president of the California Dressage Society and a lifetime member of the American Endurance Ride Conference, as well as a member of the North American Trail Ride Conference, Longriders and Back Country Horsemen and Morro Bay Yacht Club.
She completed numerous distance rides with more than 8,000 miles recorded, including Tevis twice, Capitol-to-Capitol, and the Pony Express in each direction and many other XP rides.
Skip and Sue began sailing in the 1980's with our daughters. Sue first competed in a Lido with Skip, but soon took up sailing a Laser in competition against me and our daughters.
She will be remembered for her competitive spirit and for living her entire life to its fullest, participating in horse events throughout the decline of her health. She is survived by her husband Skip, her two daughters and their husbands, Thomas and Bette Jenkins of Arroyo Grande and Mary and Lawrence D'Rozario of North Carolina. Sue has three brothers, George and wife Barbara Krusi, Carlisle and wife Lynne Krusi, and the late LeRoy "Tim" Krusi. Sue was looking forward to a grandchild to be born in the spring.
The family requests no flowers; instead, memorials may be sent to the American Cancer Society or Hospice Partners of the Central Coast. It is my hope that Susie will be remembered for her philosophy of riding our horse well and that only YOU, the rider, are responsible for the health and well-being of your horse. My heartfelt thanks for the support and friendship of all of our ride friends..... Skip Dyke.4530
• My mother was a person who couldn't sit still... I think after she did what she could with the genealogy she moved on. My own emails got short answers or no answers at all. She rode her horses thousands of miles, raced Laser sailboats against teenagers, took a skiing trip after she had broken her pelvis, etc. The years she did genealogy were probably El Nino years when she couldn't get outside!4532
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